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(No Model.)

W. A, RICHARDSON.

DISPLAY (mm).

@NO. 549,613. Patented Nov.- 12, 189 5.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, OF PROVIDENCE, RI-IODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THENARRAGANSETT CARD COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DISPLAY-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 549,613, dated November12, 1895.

Application filed February 15, 1895. $eria1N0. 538,567. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. RICHARD- SON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State ofRhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDisplay-Cards; and I do declare the followingto be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to display-cards, and more particularly to cardsfor displaying link sleeve-buttons of the rigid-post type.

The object of the invention is to provide a card to which the buttonsmay be easily secured and which will display them to the public as theywould appear in use on sleeves or cuffs; furthermore, to provide adisplay-card which shall be simple of construction and which may bestamped from a single piece of material in a single operation.

WVith these objects in view the invention consists in certain featuresof construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafterfully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of myinvention, illustrating the application of the sleeve buttons thereto.Fig. 2 is a plan view of the card before the sleeve-buttons areattached. Fig. 3 is a view of one of the sleeve-buttons for which thecard is particularly designed, showing the head of the button swungback.

1 denotes a strip of cardboard or any other suitable material having anydesired outline.-

This strip is cut longitudinally from 2 to 3 and transverely from 4 to 4to form the flaps 6 6, in which are formed elliptical or elongatedapertures 7, the apertures of one flap being in a horizontal line withthose in the other flap.

In applying the sleeve-buttons shown in Fig. 3, I swing one of the headsback, as shown in said figure, compress the card at its side edges, soas to cause the flaps to spring out, and then insert the head that isswung back through the apertures in the flaps, and then swing it back toits proper or normal position. The flaps will then be held away from thebody of the card and will assume practically the same position as theedges of the sleeve or cuffs, thus displaying the buttons to the bestadvantage to the public.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A display card having its body slitted longitudinally and transverselyto form flaps, the side edges of which project toward each other, saidflaps provided with elongated or elliptical apertures, the apertures ofone flap being in the same horizontal line as the apertures in the otherflap, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix. my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

WALTER B. FROST, MARGARET GRAY.

